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Actually, "all" the programs that are sitting in the switcher are not "all" running in the background and downloading data.
Very few apps actually have a multitasking profile which would support this... The only ones I can think of are some music streaming and navigation apps.
The vast majority of apps are sitting in a completely frozen state unable to do very much at all (until brought back to the foreground)
So much misinformation circulates about multitasking on iDevices and folk tend to make incorrect assumptions because of their experiences and expectations with multitasking operating systems on the desktop.... Shame really

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iPF Noob

Double click the home button and you will see the bottom bar appear with applications which are either running active or running frozen-state.

You can scroll this horizontal bar on the bottom to left/right to view all these apps.

Finally, you can then 'close' the app(s) by simply holding down a finger on the specific app (looking the same as if you are deleting an app). Then they will wobble (again looking the same as if you are deleting them). Then you can choose from this list of apps which to 'close'. When you are done, then once again a press on the home button.

Voila, it's like a task manager to close offending apps.

For example a GPS app will consume battery at an accelerated rate. Close these apps when not in use.

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